tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post439827342643785958..comments2024-03-28T04:13:55.692-04:00Comments on pancocojams: African Dancing By CEO Dancers On Britain's Got Talent TV Show (2013)Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-81219176462942050392017-02-11T20:04:27.857-05:002017-02-11T20:04:27.857-05:00Here's the comment from that now deleted video...Here's the comment from that now deleted video (and therefore the also deleted comment thread) which included the word "mulatto"<br /><br />Zambian Konsciousness, 2015<br />"but why were the female judges angry when they said nxobile loved simon. its like white people feel uncomfortable with pro african presentations. i was surprised that even the mulatto judge was self hating after. n'xobile said hello simon."<br />-snip-<br />Read the other comments in this post that clear up the misconception that the two female judges (including the light skinned Black woman) were annoyed with the CEO dancers prior to those dancers beginning their performances. <br /><br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-78176797286051905112017-02-11T19:45:07.067-05:002017-02-11T19:45:07.067-05:00Hi, slam 2011.
Thanks for that info. I'm not ...Hi, slam 2011.<br /><br />Thanks for that info. I'm not sure when "mulatto" stopped being acceptable in the USA, but I recall that in the 1980s child welfare agencies in the USA* were promoting the term "biracial" instead of "mulatto" as a referent for children who were of (first generation) mixed racial heritage-especially children who were Black/White.<br /><br />*In the 1980s and 1990s, I was very active in national adoption circles, (as the director of a Black adoption program and as a Board member of NACAC, a national and international (Canada) adoptive parents organization. As such, I was familiar with the "biracial" referent that agencies promoted for mixed racial children. I preferred "mixed racial" for children of any first generational mixed racial ancestry while I strongly advocated that agencies follow the same policies for children of Black/another race/ethnicity (with "ethnicity" here meaning Latino/Hispanic) as they did for children with two Black birth parents, with the exception of children of Indian (Native American) descent who were covered under the Indian Child Welfare Act.<br /><br />In other words, for different reasons, I disliked/and still don't like "biracial" almost as much as I disliked/still don't like the term "mulatto".Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-49200326318351430302017-02-11T17:27:00.956-05:002017-02-11T17:27:00.956-05:00'Mulatto' would be considered either insul...'Mulatto' would be considered either insulting or, at best, ignorant in modern Britain (i.e. an older person might use it without conscious malice, unaware it's unacceptable.) <br /><br />This quote defining it as offensive is from the OED, 2003 edition:<br />" 1. A person having one white and one black parent. Freq. more generally: a person of mixed race resembling a mulatto. Cf. metis n. 1, quadroon n.<br />Now chiefly considered offensive."<br /><br />I searched The Times (London) though, and it seems to have been occasionally used - and so presumably considered inoffensive - until as late as c. 1995.slam2011https://www.blogger.com/profile/03112153426493772446noreply@blogger.com